In the thirty-first episode of the Podcast for Social Research, recorded live at the 2019 Night of Philosophy and Ideas (February 2nd – February 3rd, 7 p.m. – 7 a.m.), an all-night marathon of intellectual life co-sponsored by Brooklyn Public Library and the French Embassy, BISR faculty Suzanne Schneider, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, and Rebecca Ariel Porte deliver a series of talks on the theme of the evening, “Facing the Present.” Suzy explores the linkages between the contemporary right wing and Islamic jihad; Ajay theorizes “The Long Now” of life during climate change; and Rebecca contemplates the puzzle of naming and envisioning possible worlds like and yet unlike our own. What senses of past, present, and future animate acts of terror or a nihilist orientation to the world? How, as political subjects, do we register the devastations of the Anthropocene, already so powerfully present to so many? Why do we attach to distant, radiant, indifferent objects and what does their allure have to do with the difficult arrangements of the given world?

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The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 31: Night of Philosophy and Ideas 2019

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This episode of the Podcast for Social Research was edited by Nechama Winston.

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